Bismarck weekly tribune., 1887-01-14
Legislative Gossip.

..... STILL SCORlNd.
Slowly but surely the legislature is get
ting into position to howl. The scoring
has not been finished, the committees of
the senate will not be announced until to-
morrow, and it is expected that Speaker
Crosse will name the committees of the
house to-day. This is enough to give the
members of the third house to understand
that by NJ ,nday next they may get into the
reserved seats to witness the fun. The
chairmanships Of the important commit
tees in the council have been announced,
and it is Well understood that the chair
house will not be given to residents of the
localities which won in the upper body.
This rule will be broken with reference to
the cOmmitte on appropriations. as it is
we'll understood that this committee will
be placed under the leadership of Mr..
Fletcher, the accomm odating gentleman
who cleared the path to the speakership
for Mr.. Crosse.
Mr.. Hobart, who exchanged letters Of af-
fection with Mr.. Fletcher, and who also
threw a few stumps out of Mr.. Crosses way,
will be given the committee on railroads.
the gentlemen from the Black Hills are
not losing much sleep over their prospects
for securing good committees, as they were
very kind and courteous to the successful
candidate for the speakership, and it is be-
lieved that they will receive the chairman
ships OF the committee on mines and min
ing. and that Of charitable and penal in
stitutions. This. Of course, was not settled
in the minds of the correspondents lastev
ing, but is supposed to be about the proper
thing, and it was agreed by the various
scribes that if the Black Hills delegation
should ever stand by one of them foe the
place these committees would be at their
disposal.
MAKING FACES
legislative assembly without some
spirit of rivalry and antagonism between
the houses would be phenomenon, and
already the bodies are making faces at
each other, and both senate and house are
walking around with chips on their Shout
ders and slings in their sleeves. The house
has appointed an honest, unsuspecting gen
tleman as postmaster, and he is now per-
forming the duties Of his Office, little
dreaming that their has been no provision
made for his pay, and that he may be work.
ing for the privilege of associating with
the handsome and accomplished solons of
Dakota. The senate has taken no action
in the matter, and it is wondering whether
it had better have an official to handle its
mail, or request the house to join in having
one man to be decided upon hereafter to
do the work for both bodies, or refuse to
appropriate money for the office, or what
It IS believed that the matter will be am
icably settled, and that the postmasters
will be properly provided for without
blOOdshed between the bodies
THE PARLIAMENTARY SWORDS
were crossed in the senate yesterday when
the large and portly Senator Cain, the
slender, dark bearded Senator Grigsby, and
that black eyed brunette, Senator Washa-
baugh desired that the time of opening
eacn days session be at 10 o'clock in the
morning, instead of 2 in the afternoon.
Senator Dodge, the gentleman with the
neat and fragile waist; Senator Collins,
with his smooth and beardless face; Sena-
tor Hughes, with his short, pug nose, and
Senator McCumber, with his fierce, black
mustache, supported the O'Clock motion,
and after some very interesting arguments
Oh the construction of the rules, the spirit
of the law, and the possible cOntOrti0ns of
the English language, the senate voted that
2 O'clock was early enough to meet. This.
OF course. will be Q source Of constant
worry to MIR. Cain, who stated that the peo-
Pic were watching their representatives
with scrutinizing eyes, and wouid expect
them to putin their time in the halls OF the
Legislature. Senators Dodge and Collins
made some very cutting points to the effect